Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4 - JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 27

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

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 Paramapadanathan

Sarvani Indriya karmani  prana karmanicha apare I

Atma samyam yoga  प्राण कर्मनिच अपरे।

आत्म संयम योग अग्नौ जुह्वति ज्ञान दीपिते ।। श्लोक २७ 

Others again offer all the actions of the senses and the functions of the life energy, as a sacrifice in the fire of self control, kindled by knowledge.

The category of mind is a combination of the sentient and insentient. Its function is very much like that piece of charcoal which when put into fire becomes ember, and charcoal again when extinguished. Mind creates the link between the self within and the objects outside. When mind is suspended in wakefulness as it does voluntarily in sound sleep, the objective world experienced by it gets negated; when the mind gets identified with the atman, like live charcoal, it assumes the characteristics of the atman. This identification of the mind with atman is here referred to as the fire of self control. This act is a great and rare sacrifice. When the mind gets merged in atman, all the actions of the senses and life energy automatically becomes sanctified. The performer of this yagna becomes brahman.